Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Well, the time has come for me to out myself as a member of that group of social pariahs we call the unemployed. It’s been a few days, admittedly, but I had to ensure that the people who needed to know didn’t find out from reading my blog. I’m sure you understand.

Additionally, I can’t really put the circumstances of it on the Internet - not because of anything shady going on, of course - but because they’ll have grounds to take away all my glorious redundancy pay if I do mention it. Suffice to say, most people reading this will know that for a good few months now, I felt my time at the company was at an end, and luckily those that mattered were well aware of this when the time came to cut our wing of the company down to size. It might look to some like I was pushed, but really what I did was scale the building, strap on a parachute and beg to be given that final nudge, if you catch my drift. And that’s as much as I’m going to write down.

So, first I’m going to take a few weeks off and pursue some more personally fulfilling goals while I take stock of the situation. I’ve been spending plenty of time catching up with my writing, some free, some paid, and doing some small programming jobs. I have to be honest and say that working at Yahoo had its good and bad sides, but if nothing else, it paid well enough that I’m not about to jump into something shitty that I don’t want to do just so I can start paying taxes again. So far the biggest dent in my lifestyle is that getting comics every week has become something of a mission - the convenience of working a few door’s down from Forbidden Planet is, if we’re being honest, the thing that I’m going to miss the most.

In the meantime, please feel free to send any jobs my way that you think might be suitable, because I’ve got a lot of free time and I need stuff to fill it. Other than that, the best you can do is be very pleased for me and keep me entertained with facebook Scrabble.

(Went to David Ford gig at the SBE last week. Excellent set, but didn’t think much of the support acts, and I kind of wish we were seeing him in the smaller venues because as good as SBE was, it doesn’t remotely compare to the smaller gigs. Next gig: Arcade Fire on the 18th. Yay! Except it’s at Ally Pally. Ugh.)